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Huh. Yesterday, we were reporting about cafés doing good business in Bed Stuy, so what’s going on over here? Lonelyville, a very popular coffee shop in Windsor Terrace, has shuttered its doors. Not only that, but the building, rumored to be owned by the ladies who ran Lonelyville, is for sale, handled by Massey Knakal (this downloadable Powerpoint presentation shows the three-story building on the market for $1.25 million). About the café, the consensus around the neighborhood seems to be this: big fat bummer. GMAP


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  1. Rob, let me add my highest praise, twice:
    1. for pointing out the idiocy of the “iced coffee” cup full of nothing but ice because the losers won’t make and pre-chill some brewed coffee (so you get tepid coffee-flavored melted icewater), and
    2) for coining the phrase “twerpish man-child.” “Hipster” has seen its day; welcome, TMC.

  2. Yes, these people who sit in these coffee shops writing their memoirs are really killing both the atmosphere and the profits the owners can count on. There is a place on Smith St. where despite the tattoos and piercings on the clientele, it feels as if one has mistakenly walked into the reading room at the NY Public Library. What this neighborhood needs is a fine bar; one that does not have a television blaring the latest game.

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